Recently I tried to resize a LVM logical volume with its volume group and the physical disk belonging to the vg. Because the logical volume contained all partitions except for /boot I knew it would be hard.

I also knew that I had no backup and no snapshot of the …

Curl has support for sftp and scp, among many other protocols. In one of our php-applications we use libcurl to transfer files via sftp to a remote datacenter.

We recently migrated this application into a docker-container. With it we transferred the private key into the container, so the application can …

EDIT: This article was first posted in 2016. As of 2019 I still have to use Windows at work, but now I just use WSL with wsltty.

At work I have to use Windows as operating system on my workstation, even though I manage almost only linux servers. There are …

Enlarging an LVM partition on a linux machine is trivial. You only need one command to do it and it can even be done when the partition is mounted.

lvresize -r -L +20G /vg1/lvm1

This command enlarges the LVM lvm1 to 20GB. Assuming you use an ext, ReiserFS or …

I purchased nearly all Humble Indie Bundles from the HumbleBundle-guys. I also do not want to manually download and install the games from the site, because after all, I use Linux and a decent package-manager, pacman. Luckily, there’s the AUR and the hib-dlagent, which lets me install and …